Oil landscape painting I made last year. The most difficult think is to take a picture.

Believing your relationship with art should always make you feel good is like expecting a long-term relationship to be all honeymoon phase. Unrealistic, unhealthy, and setting you up for disappointment. 🧵 Showing up for your art on bad days helps:

I love silly puns

Meanwhile, here's a text thread I wrote on treating hypokalaemic sensory overstimulation: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1556622127931052032.html

I'm glad Look Outside was able to answer the important question of what happens when you look out a window in Quebec?

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

For the final project for my video game composition course, I have students compose music for a 2-minute gameplay video, and I would LOVE to feature a couple indie games. So if you're an indie dev that might be interested in this, let me know!

Made a starter pack for indie devs that are creating games using RPG Maker. I will continue to add and create more lists for RPG Maker Devs. #indiedev #rpgmaker #solodev #gamedev #dev #rpg #rpgs #pixelart go.bsky.app/KX8kX86

my personal “insta top nine”

Progress! Progress! In towns you visit, there are also temples you can visit where you can have the Clerics there revive your teammates. For a fee of course. They will increase in price the higher level they become. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #SRPG #RPGMakerMV #pixelart #RPGツクールMV

this is one of the most fun games I've played in the past few years. it's a truly great 2d action platformer with a beautiful amount of silliness in it.

👏 Assemble a party from 12 unique Classes! 🔥 Unlock new and powerful magic and passive abilities through the Magic Orb system! 👀 VERY POSITIVE on Steam with 75+ Reviews! ⭐SCARMONDE is now 15% OFF on Steam!⭐ store.steampowered.com/app/2769210/... #ScreenshotSaturday | #indiegame

I'm Elicia & I'm a magic realism artist and pop artist. 🧡 eliciadonze.com 💛 instagram.com/elicia_donze 💚 support my work: ko-fi.com/elicia

Scarmonde's now on sale! 👏 Assemble a party from 12 unique Classes! ⚔️Strategic turn-based combat! 💰Discover tons of unique equipment in to truly diversify your party! 🔥 Unlock new and powerful magic and passive abilities through the Magic Orb system! 👀 VERY POSITIVE on Steam with 75+ Reviews!

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖

Wow, I've reached 100 followers here on Bluesky! Thanks for following, and beware of sky pirates! 🏴‍☠️

Hank Green is so ambitious. It's exhausting. My life is like being the co-author of the Federalist Papers. I'm all like, "John Jay got sick after writing five." And Hank's like, "HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY ONE."

I've set up an account for the random retro RPG generator I'm making! If that sounds like fun to you, give it a follow. 👾

Here's a little something autumnal. 🍂 I made these last year with cut paper, colored pencils, and markers.

As a music professor, I know that music terminology can sound more complex than it really is. Here's a thread of music vocabulary that might sound intimidating, along with the most concise, simple definition possible.

Hello Bluesky ☀️

Please check out Og Maciel's awesome Book Recommendations! I love the passion he has for reading and when I finish my current stack I'll be looking here to get my next recommendation! open.substack.com/pub/bellweth...

I started making impermanent earth art with fallen leaves, flowers, and other natural elements in 2020, after finding Morning Altars by Day Schildkret on various socials. I made this a few months later, when a friend died of breast cancer. It's one of my favorites that I've made so far.

I saw a post that started "in the Age of Misinformation" but my mom brain managed to read it as the Age of Squishmallows. Not sure how it happened, but I'm willing to embrace the Age of Squishmallows, those cuddly little things are great.

"I must not over scope. Scope is the game-killer. Scope is the creeping-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my scope. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see the production path. Where the excess scope has gone there will be nothing. Only the game will remain.”

its my birthday 🥳 take a look at my art!!!

sketching podcasters, as one does

For #ScreenshotSaturday here is a very quick playthrough of Cyclopean... #IndieGameDev #CRPG

My game and three things that inspired it... #IndieGameDev

Just a reminder that, in the US, LIHEAP exists and can help you with your energy bills in lots of situations experienced by low-income people. I strongly encourage anyone who is on a limited income to check out their state's LIHEAP program.

I felt like colour for a change.

I am the mothman, ooo I am the mothman! Oooo I am the walrus! Goo goo a'joob

Holy shit is this actually a structural feature that causes conflict to DIMINISH engagement?!? That DISincentivizes conflict?!?!?

My game employs a Respect Point system instead of traditional money drops. You get RP's for beating monsters, helping people and in this case? Sparing the lives of a-holes that were trying to kill you first. RP's aren't spent, rather, NPC's gift you items based off of RP's earned. #indiedev

More modular origami spirals (two faces of one model made with 8 4" square sheets of paper, no glue). It's a lot of fun to experiment with this...

One of my Avi Kaplan fan friends is now on Bluesky, so I'm Avi-posting on main to celebrate. :D I made this art to celebrate Avi's Nashville residency back in 2019.

A squamate-descended gliding dragon, inspired by the recent spec-evo episode on European dragons from The Common Descent Podcast. Based on extinct reptiles like Coelurosauravus as well as modern Draco lizards. Like the Draco agamids they hold their patagium to form a composite wing.

gone fishing

A big kitty with a small friend✨

Elegy

Penguins! 🐧 🐧 #polymerclay #sculpture #birds 🐾

#helpsky update: still $0/250

Here's a little something autumnal. 🍂 I made these last year with cut paper, colored pencils, and markers.

This does the rounds now and again, but Thelonious Monk’s advice to musicians is so so good. Every line.